A Planet-Wide Explosion of Religious Nutcases – The Human Race, Facing Possible Extinction, Reaches for Help in All the Wrong Places

By: Saturday August 21, 2010 2:55 am

An extremely unhinged Alaska schemer, anointed against witchcraft by a real witch hunter, has hundreds of thousands of twitter followers. The USA’s headlines are dominated by inane arguments about a religion-based community center in lower Manhattan. The son of Billy Graham jumps to reinforce hatred toward the president. Soldiers at our stateside military bases are disciplined for refusing to attend fundamentalist events on base. Where has our sanity gone?

How much oil is really spilling in the Gulf?

By: Monday May 10, 2010 5:57 pm

New estimate from Florida oceanographer estimates the spill at five times the current estimate. If this is correct, it would mean that the oil spill has already surpassed Valdeez by 6 million gallons.

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